[lit-ideas] Re: For JL
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:33:07 -0800 (PST)
Another testimonial to the uselessness of that less than useless big brain.
Get them before they get you and destroy the world while you're at it (which we
are on the brink of boys and girls, indeed we are). At the same time humans
like to think themselves so superior to animals. Animals never destroyed the
planet and rarely destroy each other, except insects during sex, sort of like
humans. And God loves always, always loves them best, which of course only
means they have heaven's imprimatur to spit on the other guy. Check this out,
keeping in mind that it's only one variation on the eternal theme:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JB14Ad02.html
John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why is sex so often associated with violence?
Because women are so uncooperative? I don't know.
At the risk of interrupting the humorous repartee, allow me to note the most
likely answer, a simple, literal fact: Human beings are animals. The
association of sex and violence is a common pattern found among any number of
species, but especially among those where the number of offspring is low and
copulation required to fertilize the egg. This pattern is strongly associated
with territoriality and defense of the nest. The mitigating factor is typically
the ritualization of violence that minimizes actual injury. An alternative,
found among several insects, but especially the preying mantis, involves the
killing and consumption of the male once the act of copulation is successfully
undertaken. There are, I believe, some species of mantis in which the female
beheads the male while the penis is still inserted and pumping away.
Ah, biology.
John
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